Bulletin

Jobs for the naughty boys

UK's cyber security minister recruits team of former hackers.

Spammer to serve time

Prolific spammer gets his just desserts.

Kernel mechanics of Rustock

Chandra Prakash provides details of the kernel-mode operations of a recent (March 2009) version of Rustock, concentrating on the changes from its previous version.

Can you spare a seg?

Peter Ferrie resumes his series of analyses of viruses contained in the EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine.

Early warning approaches to combat typosquatting

Typosquatting takes advantage of the typographical mistakes often made by users when entering a website address into a web browser. Amit Verma discusses a two-step approach to combatting the problem, prioritizing the registration of domain typos and…

Anti-spam comparative review July 2009

Martijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)

In VB’s second round of anti-spam comparative testing and certification the all-important question was whether the high achievers from the first test could maintain the same high standards this month. Martijn Grooten has the results of a test in…

CARO mio, AMTSO mon amour

David Harley (ESET)

David Harley reports on two important industry gatherings that achieved the magic combination of social networking, the exchange of solid information, great entertainment and a beautiful setting: the CARO workshop and the latest AMTSO meeting.

Malware without a name is still malware

'At the rate malware is currently released ... it may be that the specific naming of malware is a dead concept.' Lysa Myers, West Coast Labs.

EICAR 2009 in a nutshell: ich bin ein EICARer

Testing, science fiction, a security legend and some magic - Eddy Willems describes the highlights of a sunny week in Berlin at the 19th EICAR conference.

Obama pledges security education from boardroom to classroom

President Obama announces multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity effort.